EnvStats Functions for Summary Statistics and Plots
The EnvStats functions listed below create summary statistics and plots.
Function Name | Description |
cv |
Coefficient of variation |
geoMean |
Geometric mean |
geoSD |
Geometric standard deviation |
iqr |
Interquartile range |
kurtosis |
Kurtosis |
lMoment |
L-moments |
pwMoment |
Probability-weighted moments |
skewness |
Skew |
summaryFull |
Extensive summary statistics |
summaryStats |
Summary statistics |
Summary Plots
R comes with several functions for creating plots to summarize data, including
hist
, barplot
, boxplot
,
dotchart
, stripchart
, and numerous others.
The help file Plotting Probability Distributions lists several EnvStats functions useful for producing summary plots as well.
In addition, the EnvStats function stripChart
is a modification
of stripchart
that allows you to include summary statistics
on the plot itself.
Finally, the help file Plotting Using ggplot2 lists
several EnvStats functions for adding information to plots produced with the
ggplot
function, including the function geom_stripchart
,
which is an adaptation of the EnvStats function stripChart
.
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